When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

- Rosellen Brown

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. I…

- Rosellen Brown

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his lif…

- Rosellen Brown

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

- Rosellen Brown

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

- Rosellen Brown

It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to i…

- Rosellen Brown

Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is lik…

- Rosellen Brown

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpreta…

- Rosellen Brown

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

- Rosellen Brown